The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-10

manufactured and used in this country
hereafter. L have always held that
sugar growers could not possibly make
raw sugar and refine it. The raw sugar
| plant is adapted for it's own use and
the refinery for its own use.
NEW FIELD FOR FARMERS.
'In the California beet sugar expert
ments the attempt was made to make
raw and refined sugar. The experiment
failed, as you know. In Germany the
same opinion that have had has been
reached. Expensive plants have been
abandoned that one branch of the bust
ness might be exclusively followed.
| New things cannot be well done at
once. If l am successful, and am con-
| fident I shall be, it can be easily demon
! strated how the beet sugar farmer will
become rich. Indeed, he cannot help 1t
| if he follows out the German idea and is
a manufacturer as well as beet grower.
| All German beet sugar raisers are manu-
| facturers. It is this way: If the season
is wet the farmer has large tonnage,
while the percentage of saccharine mat
! ter is small. If the season is dry and
| the beets are small the percentage of
saccharine matter is larger. So the
! farmer, If also interested in a manu-
| featuring plant, is sure to win and make
money either way. He can't very we'll
lose. In Germany, where they have
| raised the saccharine matter from Pc to
| IA per cent in the last seventeen years,
| they have made as high as 80 per cent
/ profit by the use of a certain process. l
want our farmers to do the same as the
! Germans have done, and that they may
live in as big houses as the sugar raisers
| of Magdeburg do and be rich. The con-
| d tons are more favorable for me to try
| the experiment than they would be for
| corporation. They would have to send
an agent to Germany, and he must cable
| back for instructions concerning what to
| buy. Now, have money enough and
| could buy the best machinery to be had.
Moreover, l was splendidly received,
and spent two weeks IN factory, where
no one has been admitted before. From
this you can see that I have had the best
possible facilities for study, and, Of
course, these have been improved. My
| first plant will cost $500 900 of my own
money visited not only Germany and
France, but also Austria and Bohemia.
THE PROPOSED SITE.
''I shall remain in this city few days
1 EHo, CLo1 Eo
shall at once begin to look about for a
| site for the first plant. I shall, of course,
| continue to raise sugar in the Hawaiian
! Islands for the present. In selecting a
site for the beet sugar plant in California
three things are to be secured as essen
tial. These are, first, of course, place
where beets will grow, and then where
| there is cheap and abundant fuel and
limestone. In the lime-kiln gas is pro-
vided which, being drawn off by an air
pump. and purified through water, is in
troducedto tank, where lime is added.
l have about twenty-five tons of beet
seed on the way from Magdeburg and
| about five hundred pounds on the way
from Paris. The machinery is under
contract to be delivered December 18th
next, at either Holland or Belgium. It
| is being made at or near Cologne and
| Prague. 1t will be IN California in jan
uary or February. Meanwhile I will
| have selected a site for the plant, and
the machinery will be all ready for use
! by the time the beets have ripened,
which will be by the last of next August.
| The seed will not all be used in Cali
| fornia; some will be sent to Illinois and
Ohio, and [ shall expect beets to b
sent from there to me, that [ may ascer-
| tain the percentage of saccharine matter.
I want you to understand that when
went to Germany l was not determined
! to go into the sugar beet culture. went
| to study, and my action is the result of
that study. / have bought abroad
special cutting machinery, a special
| fusion tank, a special condemnation
/ tank, ETC., machinery such as has never
been used in the United States. This
machinery has largely raised the per-
centage of profit in Germany, and pro-
cess has been discovered there to take
away the salts from the molasses.
PROSPECTIVE DOMINATION OF BEET-sUGAR
| CULTURE.
''My idea is that beet sugar will yet
d inmate other agricultural pursuits.
The wheat production of India
is increasing, and England must
put a protective tariff on wheat
or her farmers will be ruined. What
then are cur wheat growers to do
when they are shut out of the Liverpool
whe 1t market? expect at first to start
in with $50 tons of beets per day, pro-
ducing about forty tons of sugar per day
then if all things are favorable will in